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Ed Vaizey's fight to win over the arts world

13.11.09
Interview: The Conservative firefighter, the Shadow Culture Minister, Ed Vaizey talks to Sarah Sands... more

Rigoletto is as enthralling as ever

22.09.09
Jonathan Miller's Rigoletto was first produced at ENO in 1982 and has racked up 12 revivals since. The man himself has returned to direct this one.... more

Will Alice be weird in Wonderland?

19.08.09
The world's hottest choreographer, Christopher Wheeldon, is to make a full-length ballet for Covent Garden out of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland... more

Macbeth, Oliver! and now Puccini... theatre director Goold signs up to ENO

02.04.09
Award-winning director Rupert Goold, 36, is to direct Turandot in the English National Opera's next season ... more

Scourge of vibrato proves his point

17.03.09
Roger Norrington is a mere stripling at 75 but he is in fine fettle, as his birthday concert proved.... more

Booming voices in Doctor Atomic

26.02.09
John Adams's latest opera Doctor Atomic has a savage beauty and explosive climax, leaving questions open.... more

Man with a nose for superior art

10.02.09
To be fair, my hangover had given me the critical faculties of a sloth. Contemporary art came well below "water" and "a hug" on my list of requirements. But where's the fun in being fair?... more

La Bohème is strong on detail, low on drama

05.02.09
La Bohème is strong on psychological detail but that level of realism threatens to drain the production of theatricality. ... more

The Miller’s tale revisited

07.01.09
For a decade the director has complained that no one wanted him in London. Now Jonathan Miller is back at ENO — with a radical new production of La Bohème inspired by Brassaï... more

Bring on the Boris chutney empire: that's the way ahead

24.12.08
What we need are useful, productive jobs that genuinely add value to our society, says Will Self... more

Former AOL boss is eyeing £20bn Yahoo

03.12.08
Technology: Former AOL chief executive Jonathan Miller is trying to raise $30 billion from investors to buy internet firm Yahoo... more

Great gags in The Barber of Seville

23.09.08
Conductor Rory Macdonald, working with ENO for the first time, delivers finesse as well as energy in The Barber of Seville.... more

Fans queue at box office for David Tennant's Hamlet

12.09.08
Dr Who fans and Shakespeare lovers camped overnight to be first to buy tickets to see David Tennant's Hamlet... more

Palin's centre for stammerers wins £340,000 grant

09.09.08
Michael Palin’s Centre for Stammering Children has just won a £340,000 grant. Here he tells how his father’s speech problems led him to offer help to today’s fellow sufferers... more

The man with the Midas touch

19.08.08
Michael Grandage has transformed the Donmar into a theatrical powerhouse. Now he explains why he's offering Dench, Law and Branagh in the West End for only a tenner.... more

Trekkies and Dr Who geeks banned from RSC's new production of Hamlet

24.07.08
Doctor Who fans hoping to get an autograph from David Tennant at the stage door of the RSC production of Hamlet have been banned from bringing merchandise from the TV show.... more

Italian bees creating a buzz on Fortnum's roof

21.07.08
Some 200,000 honey bees have taken up residence on the roof of Fortnum & Mason... more

Experimental revival of Dido and Aeneas

25.06.08
A simpler concert performance of Dido and Aeneas would have done just as well, and made greater sense of Purcell's sublime music.... more

Where art thou, David? Dr Who's Tennant signs up to play Hamlet

09.06.08
As the Time Lord, he dispatched the Daleks with relative ease. But now David Tennant - who is set to play Hamlet in the West End - faces a more formidable opponent in the shape of Sir Jonathan Miller. ... more

Keep TV stars off West End stage says Miller (just as Dr Who arrives)

09.06.08
Sir Jonathan Miller hits out at the West End's "obsession with celebrity" as Doctor Who star David Tennant prepares to play Hamlet ... more

A diva for the 21st century

14.05.08
Fiona Maddocks meets soprano Danielle de Niese as she prepares to seduce Glyndebourne in L'Incoronazione di Poppea.... more

You Cannot Live As I Have Lived And Not End Up Like This by Terence Blacker

22.02.08
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Modern-day Cosi played for laughs

16.07.07
Cheers greeted Jonathan Miller at the fifth revival of his 1995 staging of Mozart's Così fan Tutte at Covent Garden.... more

Merchant without menace

29.06.07
Rebecca Gatward's production of Merchant of Venice fails to get going, with a bland performance from John McEnery in the lead role... more

Yming is a cut above the average

16.02.07
Yming on Greek Street may not be the best Chinese restaurant in London but it's probably the best value, says Toby Young.... more

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